Users post tasks they need help with, bidders respond to make fast cash. Sept. 29, 2011— -- One young woman, an experienced advertising director, stands in her kitchen preparing dinner for some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ikea, a Swedish company famous for its flat-pack furniture and meatballs, has bought TaskRabbit, the Uber for getting people to do ...

TaskRabbit offers the chance to pick up moving jobs, cleaning jobs and all sorts of temporary piecework, with opportunities available in more than 70 major metro areas worldwide. The average pay for a ...

Labor-marketplace TaskRabbit is today announcing a $13 million C-round of funding, led by Founders Fund. The C-round will bring the collaborative consumption startup’s total funding to $38 million.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

TaskRabbit for Business, the errands marketplace’s business-focused web portal announced at the beginning of last year, has quietly disappeared. Links to this particular service, which was aimed at ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TaskRabbit, the horizontal services platform, today announced the next evolution of their on-demand platform -- chores done now. Consumers will be able to access the ...

A rabbit revolution is brewing at TaskRabbit, the site for arranging odd jobs. The San Francisco company last week overhauled how it matches workers with assignments for housecleaning, home repairs, ...

TaskRabbit, the premier service networking platform that helps busy people get things done, today announced it has secured $5 million in series A financing led by Shasta Ventures. Baseline Ventures, ...

Purveyors of low-cal or sugar-free foodstuffs have gotten a lot of mileage out of the “you won’t believe it’s diet” message. (For a recent example, see Diet Dr. Pepper’s “I Exist” support group. And ...